Well, that was easy. I mean, not that easy—there apparently was some late-night posturing and maybe even some shouting—but negotiators from 195 nations in Paris actually managed to hammer out a climate change deal . The agreement will incorporate the carbon reduction goals that each c...

Drawing up conservation plans for migratory birds can be complicated—the suckers just don’t stay put. But now for the first time, scientists from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have a complete picture of an entire year’s worth of movement for 118 species throughout the Western Hemisph...

Vultures get a pretty bad rap (see: any movie involving a thirsty wanderer and a desert). But a new program in Lima, Peru, is finally bringing the scavengers some positive PR by portraying the birds as the garbage-gobbling bad-asses they really are—all while raising awareness for the ...

Photo: Simon Monk/Flickr Bhutan's largely undisturbed forests span more than eight million acres During the run-up and first week of the Paris climate talks, the biggest greenhouse gas emitters have stolen the most headlines. China, the United States, the European Union, India, and Ru...

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Which brings us to the third factor: How much of the gas is being emitted? Given that the Porter Ranch leak is a single source of methane, it might not seem as if it would play a huge role in global climate change, but its rate of release is not insignificant. Nathan Phillips , direct...

Teddy Roosevelt in Rough Rider uniform in 1898, from Harper's Pictorial History of the War with Spain Given that the armed occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge have holed themselves up in the facility’s visitor center for almost a week—and given that they’ve indicated the...

Photo: Sandia Labs/Flickr Solar power is growing faster in the U.S. than natural gas and wind in 2016 This story originally appeared at Climate Central . Critics of the Obama administration’s most sweeping climate policy hailed the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in February to temporar...